The negotiations leading to the compliance agreement followed citations for "other than serious viola tions" by OSHA inspectors against American Can, alleging noise violations at plants in Newnan, Ga., Detroit and North Kansas City, Mo.

In certain areas it is customary to coat rice with talc to improve Its flavor* This practice of the rice way lead to asbestos contamination if the talc used has an appreciable asbestos content.

I am bringing this to your attention because our evaluation of the environmental impacts and the extensive negative comments filed by other Federal agencies and the public on this proposed action lead us to conclude that it would be unwise to move ahead with the proposal at this time.

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This should include a section stating con ditions of lead time necessary for notification to Dow should our Aroclor business drop belcw 2S*.

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REGION 2 290 BROADWAY NEW YORK, NY 10007-1866 SENT VIA EMAIL - REQUEST DELIVERY RECEIPT Daniel.Maychack@curiaglobal.com Daniel Maychack Corporate Lead of EHS Curia Global, Inc. 33 Riverside Avenue Rensselaer, New York 12144 Re: Notice of Violation RCRA 3007 Information Request Curia Global, Inc.

Health Aspects Acute exposure at 1000 ppm or over has been reported to produce dizziness and confusion and may lead to unconsciousness with possible respiratory arrest

Switchboard Wire Insulation Compound Analysis of a competitive switchboard wire insulation compound revealed that the compound was composed of 6j>% of a PVC copoly mer (R.V. 2.24), 25^ TIOTM and lead stabilized (l$ Pb).

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Thus, the fact that all manufacturers may not now be offering materials which will provide a "no migration" package should not lead the FDA to ban all PVC products any more than the FDA would ban all paper from food packaging uses because some grades of paper are unsuitable for that purpose.

FRICTION MATERIALS STANDARDS INSTITUTE, INC.

We are also sending to you* twenty blood and urine containers for personnel handling lead.

At this precarious state of our knowledge, we believe that misplaced re liance on mere suspicions rather than proved data, or precipitous and emo tional reaction to such incomplete infor mation, together with a narrowly con strued interpretation of interests, could lead to major economic consequences."

Failure to comply with this standard would lead to citation and penalty.

Raynaud's phenomenon (acro-osteolids) in response to v.c was reported as early as 1957 *-*; more lately, chronic liver poisoning leading to portal obstruction, bleeding from oesophageal veins, and splenic enlargement were identified as v.c effects.